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Thapar is a Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Her historiography is often associated with Marxist thought. Thapar's special contribution is the use of social-historical methods to understand change in the mid-first millennium BCE in northern India. The record is attributed to Romila Thapar; it does not imply sole authorship of developments produced by a wider field or community.